tubocanaliculate en · ADJ
Etymology
From tube + -o- + canaliculate.
Meanings
- (not-comparable, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having large-diameter pores with funnel-shaped openings on both inner and outer surfaces of the shell. These eggs would have a high gas exchange rate, and therefore were probably buried in humid mounds.
Coordinates
obliquicanaliculate · prolatocanaliculate · rimocanaliculate · multicanaliculate · angusticanaliculate